NYC-based dance party Ghe20 G0th1k is a town hall for squeaky-clean students and half-naked crazies, bankers and activists, dorks and divas, voguing queers and mimes in their PJs. Hosted by Venus X (aka Venus Jazmine Soto) and $hane, this free-for-all is soundtracked by a trail mix of hardstyle R&B, speakers-blown reggaeton, ghetto­tech, chopped 'n' screwed darkwave, news broadcasts in other languages, sound bites from 90s movies, and recordings of sirens, yowling animals, and cash registers going berserk—and naturally everyone's going nuts. This is maximalism at its best: taking one of everything—no, seriously, everything—throwing it all into a room, turning off the lights, and cranking the volume. If a science-­fiction convention hosted Jeremy Scott's Fashion Week party in a dungeon, this is what you'd get.
—Liz Armstrong